In that post I also placed my experience in the context of self
publishing as a whole. Rather than wait another year, I thought I'd
update those numbers at the year and a half mark, since we crossed a
significant milestone this month – 10,000+ downloads of my stories.

Here are the
download numbers: 12 mo. 18 mo. last 6 mo.

A Summer in Amber 2,222 3,075 853

Some Day Days 1,139 1,445 306

The Bright Black Sea 3,176 4,855 1,679

Castaways of the
Lost Star ---- 1,108 1,108 (3 months)

Total books
distributed: 6,537 10,483

These totals include
a few books sold, either in the non-USA Amazon store where they are not
price-matched, or in the case of The Black Bright Sea, from 10 March
to 1 Sept during which time it was on sale for $3.99 on Amazon until some time
in July when I reduced it to $.99 for the release of Castaways of the
Lost Star. I sold about 30 copies of The Black Bright Sea during that 6 month period. All together I may have sold a bit over 55
copies world-wide of all my books in the last year and a half,
putting my total royalties well into double figures! (Four, if you
count cents.)

A fair chunk of the
4,000 books downloaded in the last six months can be attributed to
the release of The Bright Black Sea sequel, Castaways of the Lost
Sea, which bumped up downloads across the board as well as
contributing it's 1,100 copies to the total. In May I was thinking of not releasing a book in 2016, but since Castaways has a fairly stand
alone story arc and was long enough to be released as a sequel on its
own, I decided to go ahead and release it as this year's book.

I'd like to thank
all of you for downloading, reading and rating my stories. I hope you
discovered some new, and pleasant worlds to live in for a few hours. And as always, I enjoy hearing from you. If you have any questions or comments, feel free to contact me.